Sustainable Beauty Packaging Innovations - part3
The critical aspect to consider when considering your product's end-of-life is its recyclability. Most beauty packaging has many parts, heavy decorations, or small or intricate sizes that make it difficult to recycle.
In this four-parts, we release the innovations, we have identified from the supply side, on the market, over the course 2023.
PART 3 - RECYCLE
How to Ensure Your Packaging is Recyclable:
- The key aspect to take into account when thinking of the end of life of your product is the recyclability aspect.
- Most beauty packaging have many parts, heavy decorations or small or intricate size that make them difficult to recycle.
- Inside our packaging content we cover the recycling topic and you will see that recycling or “sorting” is a tricky job in the beauty world.
PRODUCTS INNOVATIONS
DOUBLE GLASS - refillable
About
Once the product is finished, the packaging can be reused up to 25 times. The consumer can easily disassemble and reassemble the packaging to insert a new glass ampoule with your beauty formulas. This will also allow an easy recycling of the different components at the end of the packaging’s life cycle.
The glass ampoule's rounded design makes Double Glass unique packaging that differs from all other refillable products in Berlin Packaging | Premi Industries' catalogue.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Ethical luxury: made of glass and with PP and PETG accessories,
- Double Glass offers a sophisticated design and refillable innovation,
- Solution for prestigious skincare and makeup products in 15 or 30 ml size.
Supplier: PREMI INDUSTRIES (Berlin Packaging)
Location: Italy - Delivery Worldwide
Release Date: October 2023
ShapeUp Stick - Quadpack
SHAPEUP STICK
About
This 12.5ml panstick dispenses beauty product in a unique, personalised shape. Whether it's a logo, a symbol, or any geometric pattern that adds meaning and helps tell a story, ShapeUp boosts brand equity and engages consumers like no other product.
Easily refillable and recyclable, and available with recycled content. The entire pack is mono-material PP, with the cap and base made of PP or PCR PP.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Customisable
- Airtight
- Refillable
- Mono-material
Supplier: Quadpack
Location: Spain - Location: Worldwide
Release Date: October 23 (@LuxePack Monaco 23)
UNO DROPPER
About
For skincare brands looking to combine appealing aesthetics with eco-conscious packaging, the new push-button ‘UNO dropper’ has a mono-material construction with all parts made from the PP/PE family. The tinted bottle is finished with a subtle gold pearl effect and a finely detailed foil design. The white pearl collar coordinates beautifully with a simple foil trim.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Push button dropper
- Mono material dropper made in PP/PE family
- 50ml
Supplier: HCP packaging
Location: UK / HK
Release Date: October 23
METAL FREE & RECYCLED COMPACT
About
The mono-material compact is made entirely from Eastman Cristal One Renew, a RIC1 resin with 100% certified recycled content (allocated via an ISCC-certified mass balance approach).
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- No metal hinge for full recyclability as is.
- Crystal One Renews copolyester designed to be fully compatible with the PET recycling stream, and fully recycled content from ISCC certified mass balance.
Supplier: Eastman / Icons ICS (Icons Beauty Group)
Location: France
Release Date: Nov 23
Market application "ceramic applicator" with Caudalie Vinoperfect “Brightening Eye Cream”
TENSE TUBE & SQUEEZE’N - Cosmogen
About
The Tense Tube is a patented packaging, available in recycled plastic (PCR), with a removable ceramic or metal applicator, which can be reused on a refill. The metal applicator can be textured and personalized for a unique signature Sensory. The tube and cap are available recycled plastic.
Squeeze’n Fresh removable, a new targeted tip. With its modern and original design, its removable stainless steel tip, replaceable on a refill and separable at the end of its life, its patented on/off closing system allowing distribution (on), application and cleaning (off).
Supplier: Cosmogen - https://www.cosmogen.fr/
Location: France
Release Date: Tense Tube - Sept 2022 / Squeeze’n - Sept 23
VELVET BAG - 100% paper
About
A prestige bag in a flocked paper, FSC certified and produced from eucalyptus pulp. Its unique surface reveals a suede effect to the sight and touch. Patterns obtained by a complementary embossing process give this material the perfect appearance of an animal's coat, which is the same as that of the giraffe. Other animal skin appearances are possible.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Natural luxury and sensoriality
- Available in around a hundred colours, meeting the Oeko-Tex Standard 100, and also includes the specific colour of a brand.
- The gold logo was obtained by transfer finishing (hot foil stamping).
- FSC-certified woven paper handles, soft as a ribbon and comfortable length to carry, crown the luxurious finish of this exceptional bag.
Supplier: RISSMANN - https://rissmann.com/en/
Location: Germany (made in China)
Release Date: October 2023
MONO-MATERIAL DROPPER
About
100% recyclable droppers, produced with materials including PCR. The dropper can be disposed of in full in the plastic recyclable bin, as all the components are recycled together. As a bonus, they are all produced with PCR materials, such as the bulb, the collar, and the pipette. Droppers are where the production of CO2 emissions is reduced, as well as the waste generated after use, since they are fully recyclable in the PP stream.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- 100% recyclable dropper
- Can include PCR material
Supplier: Virospack
Location: Spain - Location: Worldwide
Release Date: October 2023 (@LuxePack Monaco 22)
rPET brushes - Cosmogen
Kabuki 100% rPET
About
The 100% RPET brush, launched by Cosmogen in 2021, has a new look and is also available in kabuki.
It’s a brush made of a single material, without glue or ferrule. COSMOGEN aims to inspire brands to appropriate this concept while personalizing it with textured handles or specific tuft shapes in their image. The progress of RPET fibres is such that their application is truly professional. Kabuki and brushes collection.
Supplier: Cosmogen
Location: France - Delivery: Worldwide
Release Date: Oct 21(Brush 100% rPET) - Oct 23 (Kabuki)
POLYFOIL® ECOPRO
About
Mono-material double barrier tubes. EcoDesign tubes contain up to 60% EU food-grade PCR material in its signature Polyfoil® barrier tube range.
The new Polyfoil® EcoPro tube comes in diameters ranging from 30-50 mm, 50-200 ml capacities, and has a body wall thickness of 0.35mm, representing a 30% reduction from the company’s standard Polyfoil® tubes. Can be decorated with a variety of methods, including inline digital and offset printing
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Comprising up to 60% PCR material,
- Neopac also incorporates food-contact compliant PCR in the shoulder and cap.
Supplier: Neopac
Location: Germany - Delivery: Worldwide£
Release Date: May 2023
MONO-MATERIAL DROPPER
About
The patented Mono-Material System Dropper has been created with the end-consumers in mind to ensure a beautiful experience that has a positive impact on the environment. Being mono-material further allows for easy disposal, as this dropper or the dropper and the bottle can be recycled as one entire unit.
- Bulb - Olefin PP Block Copolymer
- Collar - PP (Polypropylene)
- Pipette - PP Enhanced with NX® UltraClear™
- Wiper - PP (Polypropylene)
- Bottle - PP Enhanced with NX® UltraClear™
Supplier: APC packaging - https://apcpackaging.com/sustainability/
Location: USA
Release Date: Oct 23
CONSCIOUS REFILL CASE
About
A compact case made of 100% PP (polypropylene). It has a smart and intuitive way of preserving the case in time, avoiding useless waste: a PP ring lays inside the case holding the make-up pan, and when the product is over, the pan can be just pulled out by pressing the small hole on the bottom of the case and be re-filled with a new product. The mirror can be removed for proper disposal and customized with digital printing on his back to create multilayer visual effects. The same compact case is also available without the mirror.
Why it’s interesting/sustainable:
- Mono-material, full PP
- Removable mirror
- Refillable
Supplier: Cosméi
Location: Italy - Delivery: Worldwide
Release Date: September 2023
POCKET STICK + CASE
About
Mono material packaging world: PPhilosophy case and stick.
Stick: Ø18 or Ø21.5mm, perfect to become your favourite 3in1 product, ideal for face, neck and body application. 100% mono-material PP and airtight
Case: Ø59 compact case ideal for face textures: pressed, baked, w&d and creamy ones.
- 100% mono-material PP, refill system with no glue and removable mirror.
- Designed to hold the make-up product without glue, this case is user friendly and close to the conscious consumer needs. Its components can be easily separated – mirror included – for recycling or for reusing them with a new product.
Supplier: Cosméi
Location: Italy - Delivery: Worldwide
Release Date: September 2023
FIND MORE INNOVATIONS? (read below)
In this four-part series, we will release the innovations we have identified from the market's supply side in 2023.
